How to Add Windows 7 “God Mode” Shortcut in My Computer Context Menu?

As you all know "God Mode" in Windows 7 allows quick access to all Control Panel options in a single place.

To access this hidden "God Mode" you have to create a new folder or a new shortcut but today in this tutorial, we are going to tell you how to add a shortcut to "God Mode" in My Computer context menu so that you can quickly and easily access it by right-clicking on My Computer icon and selecting "God Mode" option.

Following are the required steps:

1. Type regedit in RUN or startmenu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

3. Now we'll need to create a new key under "Shell" key. Right-click on "Shell" key and select "New -> Key". Give the new key any desired name e.g. "GodMode" (without quotes).

4. Now in right-side pane, change value of "Default" to your desired name which you want to show in Desktop context menu. We have chosen God Mode in our example.

5. Now right-click on the new key which we created in step 3, e.g. GodMode and select "New -> Key". Give the new key name of command.

6. In right-side pane, change value of "Default" to:

explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

7. To set an icon for the shortcut, select the key created in Step 3 and in right-side pane, create a new String value "Icon". Set its value to your desired icon. We have set it to control.exe in our example to show Control panel icon for it.

8. That's it. Now you can have "God Mode" shortcut with an icon in My Computer context menu.

PS. If you want a ready-made registry script to do the task automatically, download following ZIP file, extract it and run the desired REG file:

Download Registry Script

This article was posted in Windows 7, Windows Vista.

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11 Comments

Musafir

Thnx Man!!! Thnx for making it easy!
Chad

YEY! I love this. I don't like seing an icon for my desktop. It looks bad with the name "God Mode". Good thing this can be done! YAY! REALyy.
Shahnawaz

A great trick by you after a long time
Shahnawaz

Really a great trick by you after a long time.
Ananthu.J.P

Vishal,
We can also add godmode in context menu by creating "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\God Mode\command" and give default value explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} .

or simply creating registry file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\God Mode]
"Position"="Bottom"
"icon"="%systemroot%\\system32\\shell32.dll,-22"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell\God Mode\command]
@="explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}"
sarab

is this for xp also ?
VG

^^ No.
Sahil

Great Work Vishal!
Mike

I have a problem with this... Can you help?

I am running Window 7 x64

I created this "God mode" exactly as in this post and it worked perfectly, but after opening "God mode", if I scroll down, Windows Explorer crashes!

Do you have any idea why and how I can fix this?
VG

^^ It might crash Explorer in 64-bit Windows. You can use the short-cut which is given in Step 4:

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-pin-windows-7-god-mode-shortcut-to-taskbar/